Robber threatened to chop cashier’s fingers off

An axe-wielding robber who threatened to chop off a post office cashier’s fingers is starting a lengthy jail term.
Darren Foster was told by a judge that he had left the woman assistant he robbed “terrified”, particularly as it was the second robbery at the premises earlier in the month.Liverpool Crown Court heard that 54-year-old Foster was seen hiding behind a bush in a garden near the Heath Street post office in Golborne on the morning of August 30.
Twenty minutes later he went into the premises with his hood pulled up and wearing sun glasses and assistant Carol Dowdall looked up and... read more

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